[vtkusers] Window events on Mac OS X

[Peter Eastman]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> Are you creating an .app bundle or just one gigantic binary with all  
> static libraries? I ask because you may need to be running "Rez" on  
> your executable after compilation.

What I'm creating is an executable which links to a bunch of dynamic  
libraries installed in a standard location.  I'm not creating an .app  
bundle.

I guess I should give some background.  What I'm actually working on  
is a library, not an application (see https://simtk.org/home/ 
simtkcore).  This is a cross platform library (supporting Mac,  
Windows, and Linux) targeted at computational biologists.   
Applications using it will generally fall into two categories:

1. Command line applications that run a simulation and write results  
to files, often without displaying any kind of UI.

2. Large graphical applications that provide their own UI and make use  
or our library for low level computation.

As you can see, UI isn't really the focus of this library.  It's about  
computation, not graphics.  For debugging, though, it can be very  
useful to visualize what's going on in a simulation.  We therefore  
provide some simple visualization features based on VTK.  Add one line  
of code to your command line application, and it displays a window  
with a real time animation of what's happening in your simulation.   
That's what I'm trying to make work.  And it needs to work for  
scientists who only know about writing Unix style command line  
applications, and who may be developing on one platform and expecting  
their code to work on others as well.

> Does the window/Application come to "front" when clicked?

No, it does not.

Peter